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979 Springdale Rd #122
Austin, TX 78702



Feature: Ground Floor Theatre Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary


by Joni Lorraine - December 02, 2025

For ten years, Ground Floor Theatre has been one of Austin’s most intentional and boldly inclusive arts organizations, committed to producing theatre for everyone by centering stories and artists from underrepresented communities....

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards; YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Penfold Theatre Company Expands Team With Four New Staff Members


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 12, 2025

Penfold Theatre Company has added four new staff members. John Kranso has joined as Managing Director, Jonathan Young as Development Director, Jeff Davis as Technical Director and Erica Moreno as Marketing Manager....

YELLOW FACE Regional Premiere and More Set for Ground Floor Theatre 2026 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 29, 2025

Ground Floor Theatre has unveiled the titles for the 2026 season including two Austin premieres, a regional premiere and a world premiere. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

Deaf Austin Theatre To Host 2nd Annual BAT BALL Fundraising Gala


by A.A. Cristi - October 07, 2025

Deaf Austin Theatre will host its 2nd Annual Bat Ball Gala on November 8 at Ground Floor Theatre. The Leather and Lace–themed event will feature live music, performances, and a silent auction to benefit DAT’s 2025–2026 season....

Cast and Creatives Set for PARADE at Ground Floor Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 24, 2025

Ground Floor Theatre has revealed the cast for the award-winning musical Parade with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Learn more! ...

MJ Kaufman's SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA kicks off Austin Rainbow Theatre Season 3: Metamorphosis


by Gillian Blum - September 21, 2025

Austin Rainbow Theatre's third season, Seson 3: Metamorphosis, opens with MJ Kaufman's Sagittarius Ponderosa, an immersive production directed by Adam Adolfo....

MMNT Opens 53rd Season With IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT


by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2025

Mary Moody Northen Theatre (MMNT) at St. Edward's University will open its 53rd season with In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, a groundbreaking new play by award-winning playwright Sarah Mantell. ...

Disability Short Fringe Theatre Festival Comes to Austin


by Nicole Rosky - September 04, 2025

TUBU Fest - Theatre for Us By Us, A Disability Short Fringe Theatre Festival is a three-day celebration of creativity, inclusion and community. It runs September 25–27, 2025 at Ground Floor Theatre in Austin, with all performances livestreamed to ensure accessibility across Texas and worldwide....

Review: AMY AND THE ORPHANS at Ground Floor Theatre


by Joni Lorraine - August 21, 2025

Authentic representation belongs at the heart of the American stage, and it belongs in Austin....

Past Shows

TUBU Fest: Disability Short Fringe Theatre Festival


Returning for its second year, TUBU Fest is back! TUBU Fest is an award winning festival which produces 15 plays written by 15 playwrights from ...

Throwback in 3's
Throwback in 3's
9/18 - 9/20/2025


Three artists working in different ways investigate the timelessness of art. Throwback in 3’s highlights the ways performance is an ephemeral art. Erica Santiago, Founder ...

Waiting for the Bus
Waiting for the Bus
11/14 - 11/23/2024


Art Spark Texas will present a new work by James Burnside, Waiting for the Bus, Nov. 14-23 at the Ground Floor Theater. The world premier ...

Yamel Cucuy
Yamel Cucuy
10/11 - 10/19/2024


Yamel Cucuy, an original play award-winning play by Glass Half Full Theatre, returns to Austin before heading to Los Angeles. Yamel Cucuy is the story ...

The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart
9/6 - 9/21/2024


Larry Kramer's landmark play about the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the fight for a public response.

Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man


Fresh from her Los Angeles premiere and back by popular demand, Katie Folger returns to Austin with the one-woman show, Getting in Bed with the ...

Clyde's
Clyde's
5/16 - 6/1/2024


At Clyde’s, the truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit


With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White ...

14/48
14/48
3/8 - 3/9/2024


Seven world-premiere plays are written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, designed, and performed in 24 hours. Then we do it all over again the next night ...

Always A Boy
Always A Boy
2/15 - 3/2/2024


Always a Boy follows Joshua and his family during his gender transition

Jack & Aiden
Jack & Aiden
11/30 - 12/16/2023


When Aiden first meets Jack, it’s through the transactional world of gay male hookup apps– Aiden’s first exploration since transitioning. But as the two spend ...

'Art'
'Art'
11/2 - 11/18/2023


When Serge purchases an all-white painting for a small fortune, his longtime friendship with Marc and Yvan is put to the test. As the arguments ...

It’s About Time … To Celebrate


The Austin Gay Men’s Chorus (AGMC)  present their Fall Fundraiser: It’s About Time … To Celebrate It’s about time: time to raise our voices, time ...

Jenna & the Whale
Jenna & the Whale
8/10 - 8/26/2023


Jenna, a young surfer, is swallowed by a whale after getting pulled out to sea by a rip current. Inside the belly of the whale ...

Sanctuary City
Sanctuary City
5/19 - 6/2/2023


In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she ...

Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson


Jarrott Productions ends their 22/23 Season with Jane Anderson’s  Mother of the Maid  at Ground Floor Theatre from April 21st thru May 6th! Mother of ...

PAGEANT: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest


Like no beauty pageant you’ve ever seen before, six contestants (all played by men) vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse compete in swimsuit, talent, ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit starring p1nkstar


Staring the amazing pop star p1nkstar. With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed ...

14/48
14/48
2/24 - 2/25/2023


After 2 years of missing your lovely faces we are thrilled to have y'all join us for the 7th annual quickest lil theatre festival in ...

The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years
12/2 - 12/18/2022


An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five ...

The Caldera
The Caldera
10/25


A benefit reading of a new play by Sarah Saltwick. Lizzie and Maggie hit the open road in search of health care. Up in the ...

Matt & Ben
Matt & Ben
10/6 - 10/8/2022


In 1994, before Jason Bourne or Bennifer, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were just two struggling actors trying to make it in the movie business. ...

Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics
8/11 - 8/27/2022


ANNA IN THE TROPICS (winner of the 2003 Pulitzer) is a poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 in a CubanAmerican cigar factory, ...

A War of the Worlds
A War of the Worlds
6/2 - 6/18/2022


Both comic and gripping, A War of the Worlds re-imagines Orson Welles and his radio troupe, The Mercury Theatre, as a group of Black artists ...

Dot
Dot
5/13 - 5/28/2022


The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than ...

The Voices of Donny Hathaway
The Voices of Donny Hathaway
4/22 - 4/23/2022


On January 13th, 1979, the world lost Donny Hathaway, one of its greatest musicians and singers. In Robert King Jr.'s new thought-provoking musical, he introduces ...

Drag Queen Story


Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds likedrag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination ...

Unexpected Joy
Unexpected Joy
12/3 - 12/19/2021


In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo, ...

The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project
10/21 - 10/23/2021


Austin Rainbow Theatre presents their very first production, The Laramie Project.The play examines the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student, through the ...

rain falls special on me
rain falls special on me
8/26 - 9/4/2021


When it rains in Austin, Texas, the best place to stay dry through the night is behind the theatre. Weather and circumstance bring together Mikey, ...

Trans Lives/Trans Voices
Trans Lives/Trans Voices
1/28 - 5/27/2021


Trans and Non-Binary people telling their own stories from their perspective.New stories premier each Thursday night at 7pm starting January 28th. with a live intro ...

Abuelita's Christmas Carol


Shes no George Bailey! Shes no Ebenezer Scrooge. She is, however, spicier than the both of them. Her name is Rosita, aka Abuelita! Since 2006, ...

Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musicals


Ground Floor Theatre is bringing together some of the top talent in Austin for virtual live performance -- Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musical ...

Single Black Female
Single Black Female
2/13 - 2/29/2020


Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle-class women in urban America as ...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
12/5 - 12/21/2019


Ground Floor Theatre has teamed up with Deaf Austin Theatre for our December Musical In keeping with GFTs mission of producing ground breaking works by ...

HANG
HANG
10/3 - 10/19/2019


A crime has been committed. The victim has a choice to make. The criminal is waiting. A shattering new play about one woman’s unspeakable decision. ...

TRANSom
TRANSom
8/15 - 8/31/2019


This play, devised by the all trans/non binary ensemble, tells the story of a 'found family' living together in the same house. Together, they experience ...

Dex & Abby
Dex & Abby
5/16 - 6/1/2019


Sean and Corey are enjoying the beginning of a relationship and their new home. Their dogs, Abby and Dex, are not. Abby, Seans young, excitable ...

black do crack (remount)


black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not ...

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
3/21 - 4/6/2019


As a police inspector investigates a gruesome murder, we journey through the mind of a criminal. What did he do? Why did he do it? ...

black do crack
black do crack
2/14 - 3/2/2019


black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
12/6 - 12/22/2018


One of the most groundbreaking productions ever to hit Broadway, Fun Home is the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Based on ...

Nevermore
Nevermore
10/25 - 11/10/2018


Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a unique and wildly theatrical musical play combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and ...

There and Back
There and Back
8/9 - 8/25/2018


World premiere of There and Back, by Austin playwright Raul Garza. This new work opens up dialogue about the current immigration crisis with an eye ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
3/15 - 3/31/2018


WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no-one is allowed to talk about.   Its award-winning ...

Gibberish Mostly
Gibberish Mostly
9/21 - 9/30/2017


A young woman yearns to communicate with her parents as they struggle to understand what’s going on in her mind. Gibberish Mostly takes an unusual ...

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